Syntax shortcut for accessing properties on the current context ("this")

[Nathaniel Higgins]

Ah yes, silly me.

What about %prop or $prop? When it’s something you have to do a lot, repeatedly typing `this.` can be a pain. There’s definitely a case for it as many other languages use it. 

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On 27 July 2015 at 14:46:33, Andrea Giammarchi (andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com) wrote:

apparently the @ has been booked already for decorators
https://medium.com/google-developers/exploring-es7-decorators-76ecb65fb841

I also personally think we don't really need yet another magic shortcut that but that's just my opinion.

Best Regards

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Nathaniel Higgins <nat at nath.is> wrote:
Hi. 

In CoffeeScript (and a few other languages including Ruby I believe), there is a syntax shortcut for simplifying accessing properties on the current context (this variable), which is something you have to do often. 

This looks something like `@prop`, which is synonymous with `this.prop`. I’m not sure if the “@“ character is used for anything else yet in JavaScript, but I’m sure we could find another character to do the same if it is. 

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